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Tessa Gregory

Tessa is the Journal Media Manager at PLOS. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in Rhetoric and Music. She can be reached by email at tgregory@plos.org and on Twitter at @tessagregs.

The Tyrolean Iceman is a mummified body of a 45-year-old man originally discovered with his clothes and personal belongings in a glacier of the Alps mountains, in the South Tyrol region, Italy. Previous research showed that the Iceman lived during…

Climate change is predicted to increase human activity in the Arctic, including remote areas of Greenland where narwhals live. However, little is known about the whales’ acoustic behavior or their reactions to anthropogenic sounds. Previous studies have mostly relied upon…

Little is known about the early hunter-gatherer populations that lived on islands in Southeast Asia, as human remains from the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene are extremely rare. The Niah Cave in the northeast of Borneo has been identified as…

The lack of female representation in academic science is a well-known issue, but little is known about how academic societies might help promote gender equity in this field. In a new study from PLOS ONE, Dominique Potvin and colleagues from…

With production of plastic products increasing globally, plastics have been identified as a large component of marine and beach litter. Scientists have studied the abundance and distribution of microplastics, plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length, in marine and…

Donkeys have long served as beasts of burden, transporting goods in the Near East at the end of the fourth and beginning of the early third millennium B.C. Little is known, however, about the history of riding donkeys during this…

Sometimes cute animals may not appear to be endangered and lemurs are no exception. Nearly all lemur species are at risk of extinction, primarily due to habitat loss and fragmentation – division of their habitat into smaller parcels, usually because…

Engraved stone artifacts can provide important insights into the history of human culture and cognition. However, it can be difficult to determine the action that created an incision: was it an accidental scrape or purposeful engraving? To address this issue,…

Parasitic worms that infect the human intestine lay eggs that are later excreted in feces. These parasites might spread from human to human, or they may be passed from intermediate animal hosts, such as pigs or fish, via meat consumption…

Famously known as the setting for Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”, Walden Pond in Massachusetts has been a popular destination for swimmers and tourists since the early 20th century. Previous research has shown that this popularity has taken its toll on the water’s…